No Feeling of Falling

Sunday, April 27, 2008

There's a Nebula in the House!

Karen Fowler is staying at my house and last night she won the Nebula* for 'Best Short Story'. There was much rejoicing!

*Disclaimer: The Nebula is not actually at the house because if you take a Nebula on a plane in your luggage they sometimes come apart. So the Nebula is being mailed to Santa Cruz and did not leave with Karen last night.

And this Nebula pictured above is not actually Karen's Nebula. I found it on the Internet and do not know who received this one.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

It Seems It Never Rains in Southern California

I basically live in LA these days, toiling on the edges of the film and game industries. Actually I live in Pasadena. But it's real close to LA. I go home to husband and dogs on the weekend.

I live in a studio apartment only half a mile from work, and walk to work ever morning, which is exactly not the LA experience. But other than that, it feels like LA. And frankly, I am completely unable to wrap my head around the sprawling, sun-drenched anarchic thing that is greater LA. I lived in New York, one of the other defining metropoli of the U.S. when I was in my twenties and although it was not always easy, I felt I could 'get' New York City. Maybe it is age. Possibly it is that memory has glossed over the first year in New York when I was pretty miserable.

There is much to like about this place. The Asian food is extraordinary. The weather is a permanent vacation for a midwesterner.

About Me

I'm a writer with four novels and more than two dozen short stories published. The best known is probably my novel China Mountain Zhang. A collection of my short stories, called Mothers and Other Monsters, was published by Small Beer Press in July '05.

Chrononaut Log David Moles smart and funny observations. Actually, what I really love about his log is
the design, which fills me with envy.

Pen in Hand I've known Karen for years, but didn't know that in addition to being a writer and a journalist and a volunteer at the local
raptor center, she is also a beautiful illustrator. The most beautiful blog I follow.

Austin Kleon It seems absurd to talk about this blog without including any images, but lets just say it's fun, sharp and graphical.

Not a Journal (Except Now It Is) If this were a blog, it would be about Small Beer and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, except it's not
a blog. Except it really is.